Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition by Ernest Hemingway
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of a veteran's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean. "A century since i ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two by Roald Dahl
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both". (Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction). Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular wr ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka; Alexander Starritt (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familia ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
Twice Cursed: An Anthology by Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Sarah Pinborough, M.R. Carey, Marie O'Regan
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fourteen more tales of terrible curses from the depths of the forest and beyond from the masters of dark fairy tales. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise and many more. In this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology are a further eleven original tales and thre ...Show more
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. In the luminous title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece ...Show more
The Lonely Sea by Alistair MacLean
23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career and the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck. THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT... Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable and unrivalled skill in writing about the sea and it ...Show more
Wild Women: A collection of first-hand accounts from female explorers by Mariella Frostrup
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricte ...Show more